Re: adding a user to a group

[bob parker <bob_parker@dodo.com.au>]

On Wed, 7 May 2003 14:07, David Z Maze wrote:
> xucaen@yahoo.com writes:
> > Hi, How do I add a user (myself) to the group that can access the
> > CD-ROM and CD-RW drives?
> <snip>
> This won't make it possible to burn CDs as a user; you need to be root
> for that.  (RTF HOWTO.)  If you want to mount CDs on those devices,
> make sure there's a relevant line in /etc/fstab with the 'user' flag set.

Not really, you can set your cdrecord as setuid root as below.

-rws--x---    1 root     cdrom        311k Dec  1 05:16 cdrecord

The reason it needs to be root is so that it can lock some memory I believe.

HTH
Bob Parker